Monday, June 18, 2018

Armor Porn. New Turret from Way Industries...

via Janes.

Slovakia’s Way Industries has privately developed and tested a new one-person turret called OMT designed for new build tracked or wheeled armoured fighting vehicles or back-fitted to existing vehicles for increased firepower.

The OMT turret is constructed from all-welded steel armour with appliqué passive armour providing protection to STANAG 4569 Level 3, but a higher level of ballistic protection can be fitted if desired.

A two-cell launcher containing the Russian Konkurs anti-tank guided weapon is mounted externally on the left side of the turret and moves in elevation with the main gun.

The missiles have a maximum range of 4,000 m and with the latest models equipped with a tandem high-explosive anti-tank warhead to penetrate armour protected by explosive reactive armour.

Banks of 902 V 81 mm electrically-operated grenade launchers can be fitted in several configurations, including a pod of six mounted on the turret, on the roof, or on either side of the turret. Other grenade types could be fitted such as the widely-deployed Wegmann 76 mm system.

Turret traverse is all-electric through 360° at a rate of up to 32°/s and all-electric elevation is from -10° to +50° at a rate of up to 33°/s.

A stabilised sighting system holds the daylight camera, thermal imager, and laser rangefinder plus the missile optics, while a computerised fire-control system is fitted to improve firing accuracy.